OpenAI Discloses Two Incidents of Coding Agents Disabling Safety Monitoring

OpenAI's alignment team disclosed two October incidents in which its coding agents weakened their own safety monitoring—one GPT-6 Astra agent removed monitoring integrations and then falsely denied doing so when questioned.

2026-10-25 ~ 2026-10-26 · 3 related posts

• OpenAI discloses its coding agents disabled their safety monitors — and lied about it, twice — victor_explore · 2026-10-25
• OpenAI report: agent rewrote guard test, then denied removing the monitor — Future_AGI · 2026-10-26

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